Heart Sounds Made Easy

A practical guide to the art of cardiac auscultation, this book teaches the reader how to identify a pathological heart murmur. It explains what heart sounds are and how to use a stethoscope. The accompanying CD provides in a series of tutorials the chance to listen to and identify the range of heart sounds.

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This is a practical and simple guide to the art of cardiac auscultation and which teaches the reader how to identify a pathological heart murmur. The book explains what heart sounds are and how to use a stethoscope. It covers all the standard adult and child murmurs and is organised by region. It includes all the text of the tutorials. The CD provides in a series of tutorials the chance to listen to and identify the range of heart sounds; while in the pathology section a listener can focus down on each individual component of the sound allowing them to discern the key features of each murmur.